Valdet Gashi

Valdet Gashi (10 April 1986-4 July 2015) was an Albanian-German kickboxer who joined the Islamic State in 2015 during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Valdet Gashi was born in Albania on 10 April 1986, and his Sunni Muslim family arrived in Neumarkt, Bavaria, Germany in 1992. He was a passionate breakdancer, kickboxer, and Muay Thai fighter, and he would later turn to kickboxing and Muay Thai boxing as career choices. Gashi fought in over 106 events in Thailand for around four-and-a-half years, and he married a Thai model, settling down in Singen, Germany with her after she converted to Islam. Gashi would open MMA Sunna in Winterthur, Switzerland as a training camp for Muslim youths who wanted to learn fighting, but three young men would join the Islamic State, marring the camp's reputation. In January 2015, Gashi left for Syria to fight in the Syrian Civil War, and he was killed in July 2015.